Lea is a procedural, object-oriented language designed to meet the needs and requirements of novice coders.

• LeaCompiler will automatically compile if it needs to, before compiling tests. It is possible to compile LeaCompiler by itself by running:

$ ant project

• We highly recommend you run a cleanup beforehand:

$ ant clean-code

• In order to ask LeaCompiler to compile the default set of tests run the following:

$ ant

• In order to compile your personnal tests run the following command:

$ ant -Dprog_name=<testName>

It is possible to use LeaCompiler to compile and run your own tests. It is necessary to place the .lea file in the tests/input/ folder.

• To run the default set of tests (LeaCompiler will automatically compile the default tests):

$ ant run

• You can also ask LeaCompiler to run your programs after compiling them (LeaCompiler will automatically compile the tests):

$ ant run -Dprog_name=<testName>

• LeaCompiler will also run tests that have been previously compiled (ommit the -Dprog_name argument in order to run the default tests):

$ ant run-output -Dprog_name=<testName>

You can clean the code of the LeaCompiler simply by running :

$ ant clean

You can also choose to clean a particular set of compiled tests :

$ ant clean-output -Dprog_name=<testName>

Or you can simply clean the entire project, including tests and compiler :

$ ant clean-all

Please note that all test files must have a .lea extension, and whenever using the -Dprog_name=<testName>option, <testName> should be the filename of the test (omitting the ".lea" suffix).

Also, due to the nature of the buildfile, whenever using ant run-output on a Lea file containing a call to read(), the instruction System.console() will return null, which will cause read() to be skipped. If you want to execute the compiled output in this case, please run the following:

$ ant run -Dprog_name=<testName>
$ java -jar tests/output/<testName>/lib/<testName>.jar